Sturgill Simpson is among the most outspoken and perhaps even cantankerous artists on the current music landscape. That hasn't stopped people from wanting to go see him. After releasing the Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds album Mutiny After Midnight , which is only available in physical editions for now , Simpson and his band are about to go tour arenas . But Simpson's "optics" have seemingly cost him a few bucks, and he'd like to tell you about the DC think tank that offered him ten grand and then changed its mind. On his Instagram story, Sturgill Simpson recently posted screenshots of a pair of emails from an unnamed individual who represents the Atlantic Council, a DC think tank that's been around for a long time. In the first of those emails, the rep says that the Atlantic Council wants to recognize Simpson at its Distinguished Leadership Awards, which went down last month at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, DC.…